Is it possible to make a checkpoint without using InsightFace?

[ynie]

Since InsightFace is not commercial free, Could we use something else and continue enjoying InstantID?

[ResearcherXman]

For current released models, no. But we are working on other face encoders to support commercial usage.

[ethankongee]

any other face encoders your team is looking at? Maybe I can help play around as well

[ynie]

Yes we would like to help as well. Let’s move away from InsightFace please - Steven

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[ResearcherXman]

Do you guys have any suggestion?

[ynie]

Hmm what did the non-face id Ipadapter use?
ip_adapter-plus-face

[whiterose199187]

@ResearcherXman is https://github.com/davidsandberg/facenet an option?

[julien-blanchon]

For current released models, no. But we are working on other face encoders to support commercial usage.

Any update on that ?

[mars747]

Is there any interest in a non-commercial model kickstarter to at least get a commercially usable API? i.e. make a kickstarter campaign so that the backers can get a commercial model through standard API prices (comparable to stable diffusion model serving prices)?

[johndpope]

fyi - there's some technology here that surprised me how well it could do face swapping without insightface
https://github.com/ICTMCG/CSCS
it's using arcface - there's a trained model on top of resnet50.

UPDATE
they're mentioning here to use mediapipe instead of insightface.
https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-LivePortraitKJ